Remaking the rural South : interracialism, Christian socialism, and cooperative farming in Jim Crow Mississippi /

This is the first book-length study of the Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the win...

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Main Author:	Ferguson, Robert Hunt (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Series:	Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Subjects:	Agriculture, Cooperative > Mississippi. Collective farms > Mississippi. Delta Cooperative Farm (Miss.) Providence Plantation (Miss.) Sharecropping > Mississippi. Rural development > Mississippi. Christian socialism > Mississippi. Mississippi > Race relations. Mississippi > Economic conditions > 20th century. Agriculture, Cooperative. Christian socialism. Collective farms. Economic history. Race relations. Rural development. Sharecropping. Mississippi. Mississippi > Providence Plantation. 1900-1999

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